Cinema Politica is Turning 15
Join us on September 15 as we celebrate 15 years of Screening Truth to Power with headliner Yamantaka // Sonic Titan and more!
Report Back on OSER RÊVER DE JUSTICE
A successful QC tour of Migrant Dreams. Status for All! Justice for Migrant Workers!
From Ground Zero
Through striking authorial engagements with allegory and creative actuality, these filmmakers’ testimonies of confinement under relentless bombardment and imposed famine expose audiences to fragments of their daily struggle to survive — and to do so with dignity. Khamis Masharawi’s Soft Skin enters an animation workshop providing art therapy to children, many of whom are newly orphaned, as […]
DOPE IS DEATH Now Available in Canada from CP Distribution
Cinema Politica Distribution is thrilled to announce its latest acquisition of DOPE IS DEATH by Montreal-based filmmaker Mia Donovan.
Twyla Roscovich: A Dedicated Activist and Filmmaker Whose Legacy Will Last Lifetimes
Cinema Politica’s Ezra Winton remembers a friend and ally.
CP Concordia is hiring: Communications Coordinator
Cinema Politica Concordia is seeking a creative Communications Coordinator with experience in social marketing and graphic design. The Communications Coordinator plays a key role in creating graphic materials consistent with our visual identity, promoting our screenings, managing online communications, and supporting outreach efforts within the Concordia and Montreal communities.
Land and Memory: From Gitksan Nation to Eastern Anatolia
Our On Demand titles this month feature two stories of displacement, settlement and generational memory in Nettie Wild’s BLOCKADE and Hale Güzin Kızılaslan’s THE RETURN.
Call for Submissions 2024
If you recently completed a politically engaged film and you want it seen far and wide submit your work to Cinema Politica today! We are interested in works of any length that contribute to justice and equality movements, activism, knowledge and discourse.
CP Concordia Launches its Winter Program
If there was ever a time to fight for what is right, including against those on the right, it is now. With the gilded ascent of trolls, neo-fascists and the broligarchy, the world is on a political precipice.
2012 / Through the Heart
2012/ Through the Heart draws us into the intensity of the 2012 Quebec student strike protests and riots. While we are confronted with the brutality of the police, the film reminds us of the power of this historic event which shook up the political and media world in Quebec. Artist Safia Nolin lends her voice […]
Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
We stand in defiance of oppressive and violent systems and institutions founded on centuries-long histories of slavery and genocide and the vile legacy of white supremacy and colonialism …
Monica Gutierrez on Canada’s debt
#ComfortableTruth: Migrants owe Canada for the opportunity to be here. Check out Monica Gutierrez’s reflections and video response here.
New in Cinema Politica Catalogue: Fall 2020 Titles
We have many fantastic new titles to discover, and while it is not the same as hosting in-person screenings, there is solace in the sense of community we can still cultivate online …
My Stolen Planet
Oppressed by governmental restrictions that prevent her human rights, movement and autonomy, an Iranian filmmaker is forced to emigrate “inwards” and finds freedom in recording herself dancing and singing at home as an act of resistance. Using a personal diary-style narrative, Farah Sharifi traces her birth in post-revolution Iran to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement […]
Cinema Politica Pandemic Playlist Vol 1: Labour and Community
Volume 1 of Cinema Politica’s Pandemic Playlists examines labour and community through a dozen feature and short films.
CP Concordia is hiring: Volunteer Coordinator
Cinema Politica Concordia is seeking a dynamic and resourceful Volunteer Coordinator with a passion for community engagement. This role involves recruiting and coordinating new and returning volunteers, actively organizing postering and flyering campaigns, managing on-site event logistics, and conducting community outreach within the Concordia and Montreal communities.
